WV Tech Beats Ohio State-Mansfield By 100 Points

INDIANAPOLIS - MARCH 14: A detail of a referee holding a basketball during the game between the Illinois Fighting Illini and the Purdue Boilermakers during the Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse on March 14, 2008 in Indianapolis.

The Golden Bears shot 70 percent from the field and had four players with more than 20 points. They led the Mavericks by 60 points, 83-23 at halftime.

The Golden Bears didn’t come close to the NAIA record for margin of victory, which is held by Oklahoma Christian with a 117 point win over Southwest Assemblies of God in 1981.

The NCAA Division I record for the largest margin of victory is also 117 points. That’s held by Long Island University with a 179-62 win over Medgar Evers in 1997.

The largest margin of victory within collegiate basketball belongs to the NCAA Division III Lincoln University Lions of Lincoln, Pa., with a 123 point win over the Ohio State-Marion Scarlet Wave in 2006.

WV Tech scored 130 of their 157 points in the paint and out-rebounded the Mavericks by 48.